March 2009
Lewis & Hitchcock, Inc.,
Beltsville, Maryland
Hughes United Methodist Church, Wheaton, Maryland
The Newcomer brothers, Harold and Ed, were masters at “remanufacturing” organs. The Newcomer Organ Company of Washington, D.C., produced a…
Schoenstein & Co.,
Benicia, California
Schermerhorn Symphony Center,
Nashville, Tennessee
Music City’s New Symphony Hall Organ
In its February 1982 issue, The Diapason published an article that challenged conventional wisdom. (See…
This article was originally published in the February 1982 issue of The Diapason. It is reprinted here at the suggestion of Jack M. Bethards because of its connection with the new Schoenstein organ at Schermerhorn Symphony Center,…
The Kilgen pipe organ at Our Lady of Refuge Church was built in 1933 by George Kilgen & Son of St. Louis, Missouri, as the firm’s Opus 5163, designed by Charles Courboin, then organist of St. Patrick’s Cathedral in New York City. The…
On the day before I was to leave for the Organ Historical Society’s 53rd National Convention, I was eating a sandwich and reading the paper. I never read my horoscope, but for some reason I happened to glance at mine (Cancer) and was…
Practicing II
Last month I wrote that the “concept of ‘slowly enough’ is the key to the whole matter of practicing organ and harpsichord.” This month I want to explore that concept further. I will also discuss a couple of other aspects of…
Monumental intimacy
In the July 2007 issue of The Diapason, this column commented on a book by Arnold Steinhardt, first violinist of the Guarneri Quartet. Violin Dreams (Houghton Mifflin Company, 2006) is a sort of musical memoir—a great…
Organist and composer Michel Boulnois died on November 30, 2008, at the age of 101. He was buried at the Villemomble cemetery (near Paris). He was born in Paris on October 31, 1907. When Michel was 11 years old, his father Joseph Boulnois…
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